Monthly Archives: April 2008

On my desk… BANANES FLAMBEES

By Alice | Published: April 23, 2008

I mentioned previously that I am making something with silk hankies. It’s almost ready to reveal – maybe tomorrow. There have been quite a few hankies I couldn’t incorporate because they were the wrong size; such as this one that I really like: BANANES FLAMBEES! I inherited all these (1960′s/70′s?, unused, still with the sticker [...]

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Green

By Alice | Published: April 22, 2008

Sometimes I question why people move here from all sorts of exciting and interesting sounding places.  Then sometimes it is so sunny and the grass is so green that I just don’t question it.

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6 word description

By Alice | Published: April 21, 2008

(I got this jar from a charity sale on Saturday; 20p.) I have been tagged by Emily with this really hard meme to describe yourself in six words. Geeze difficult! :) So I ambushed Simon as soon as he got home from work with ‘describe me in 6 words’, ha! THIN ICE huh! This is [...]

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Ebay Score

By Alice | Published: April 20, 2008

It’s not all wild consumerism around here I promise, but I am pretty pleased with my latest Ebay score. I ‘won’ these for ¬£29 for four, that is ¬£7.25 each, if I was inclined to say such things I would be saying ‘sweeeet!’. They are iron and from Habitat. Really heavy. Now I see them [...]

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Silk Hankies

By Alice | Published: April 20, 2008

I am currently working with lots of the above in a project for the house that I have high hopes for. It involves lots of very simple hand stitching which is nice as also this gives me an excuse to watch crap TV at the same time.

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